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Calopterx maculata
All black wings. A male. Female has white spots on wings.
Found on the edge of the forest behind my workshop. I never see these in the more open areas of my yard. They lay their eggs in the soft stems of aquatic plants in slow moving streams and rivers.
Predacious immatures are known as naiads. Which molt 11 or 12 times in the water. Then they crawl onto land and molt a final time into an adiult.
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